commissioned in two thousand and eleven with the institutes of health and medicine that study had said that they could not find a connection between the pollution levels around the pits and the health effects that the veterans were experiencing. those studies which were very in-depth did not identify an increased risk of respiratory symptoms or disease at locations with burn pits as opposed to no burn pits. the army did their own study and years later and it was it was completely flawed for several reasons one it only studied one burn pit out of two hundred seventy three that were located in iraq and afghanistan they didn't have prior plume samples because service done done the whole study was a complete. as for snow. in july. you may not find snow in albany new york. but that does not mean that it does not snow in albany new york. monitors when. you may not be attacked burning the monitors are too far away from the burning you may not attack a part of. it in the monitor until after the burning stop you may not detect. any common sense tells you there was a lot of bad air. all around t

american academy of pediatrics and health officials have been voicing their concerns since the late one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred eighty eight the institute of medicine said quote data shows the flow of seminal the clones from farm animals medicated with antibiotics in concentrations through food products to humans. acquire clinical some analysis but recently dr thomas frieden director of the c.d.c. has come out and said quote there is a strong scientific evidence of a link between biopic use in food animals and a bout of resistance in humans according to mayor political director at organic consumers association these antibiotics could trigger of things that we normally associate with. i have been looking into the problems with because i am coming off of farms and resistant infections you're very tracks infection is the latest it's becoming very common that women will get your inner tract infections that cannot be treated with antibiotics and these infections are coming directly from the food that they're eating. and the issue is it's not just in the food we eat as a vegetarian i think while i'm out of the woods i don't have to worry about these food

the institute of medicine published a report, laid out step by step by step over 300 or 400 pages how to build a quality infrastructure in this country for substance use disorders and mental health. it has not been acted upon. it's been sitting there on the shelf for 11 years. >> so we have studied this. we do know how to address -- >> absolutely. that is the good and the bad news. the good news is that there's simple, methodical ways to substantially reduce this. the tragic part, it's not being done. >> i just want to check with my control room because i know we are waiting to go to the president. natalie -- they'll tell me they're doing it. natalie, i want to ask you. there's something i hear from people when we have this conversation on tv. because we really try to cover this well on msnbc. from people who are on pain medication, who really need it, and they say you're going to change the world for us in that there are some people who require pain medication and they're all getting swept up in this whole idea that we need to reverse the issuance of prescriptions to people with pain. there was a shift in how doctors thought about pain several years ago which did contribute to